With a Foreword by Felix Frankfurter. Edited by Paul Henle, Horace M. Kallen, & Susanne K. Langer. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 306 pp., frontispiece�portrait�of Sheffer after C. J. Ducasse. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt on black lettering piece, front board with single blind fillet border, dust jacket (jacket very slightly edge worn, spine faintly panel toned with some minor loss to head and tail, otherwise a very good copy). New York, The Liberal Arts Press. A festschrift in honour of the American logician Henry Sheffer, one of the most important influences in Susanne K. Langer's intellectual life, under whom she studied formal logic at Harvard. The present collection was edited by Langer, who also contributed an essay titled 'Abstraction in Science and Abstraction in Art'.

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Title: Structure, Method and Meaning: Essays in Honor of Henry M. Sheffer.
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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